President should act like a hero

SIR: The excuse by President Goodluck Jonathan that his achievements are merely perceived from the prism of the current state of war is inconceivable. As much as I would agree that Nigeria is in a state of war, history is replete with wartime leaders who ended up as heroes of their various nations.

Abraham Lincoln was president during the American civil war and yet he emerged a hero, after he conquered the forces of slavery and secession to unite America as one independent state.

Wilson Churchill was the British Prime Minister during the Second World War. At some point in the Second World War, German air raiders blasted London for 77 nights, after the city fell into the aggressive hand of Hitler and his German troops. During those nights, London knew no peace. Part of the Buckingham Palace was touched; residents took to using the tunnels of the London underground as shelter. Yet Wilson Churchill held his head high when others were losing theirs’ to emerge as a never-to-be-forgotten British hero.

Napoleon was a French revolutionary, a hero; his time was one of the most rancorous and genocidal in the history of France, yet he conquered all forces of regression.

Franklin Roosevelt is an American hero of the Second World War after he had to be forced into the bitter reality of expending huge budget to prosecute the war, to restore the American pride.

David the conqueror of Goliath is a divine hero.

I want the President to be remembered as a Nigerian hero, after he’s gone past his regime. I want Jonathan to act like a hero.

I want the president to seize the current opportunity to write his name in the history of Nigerian heroes by taking on the challenge posed by Boko Haram by ensuring its overdue death.

I want the president to use every legal and human means to Bring Back Our Girls ALIVE; Hale and Hearty. I want him to put a lasting solution to all lingering industrial strikes particularly ASUP’S AND COEASU’S.